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He could never make a move because she would hate him for betraying her mother like that but she loved him too. When he wanted to get together with her after her mother’s death - he instead felt compelled to let the English government trap him so that he could finally rip their mask off.
He was SO HURT she didn’t insist on following him to St. Helena but she viewed him as a cheater and she didn’t want to be with a cheater. Instead she raised her son alone to vindicate him.
His most cherished possession on St. Helena was the diamond necklace that he had given her that she gave back to him. He has given the women around him diamond jewelry so he could get away with lavishing her with diamond gifts.
From her memoirs:
As I was masked I received after our performance quantities of compliments which the fact that I was disguised permitted people to make me.
A domino whom I recognized spoke to me and said, “How dazzling you are! One cannot look at you.”
”I should make a good prize, should not I, with all the diamonds I have on?”
“You know very well“, he replied, “that the most beautiful diamond of all, the diamond that is simply priceless, is the one hidden under all the rest.”